19 July 2010
Socrates Giolias
Shooting
Athens journalist Socrates Giolias was killed by unidentified individuals at dawn, who riddled him with bullets outside his home in the Ilioupolis suburb of Athens.
His wife told the police that an unknown man rang the doorbell of their apartment at about 5.20 a.m. and when Giolias opened the door told him that someone was attempting to steal his car outside the apartment building.When Giolias descended to the building entrance where he had parked his car, he was shot several times, dying on the spot.
Police have collected some 20 cartridges from the scene. The perpetrators, tentatively believed to be three, fled in a car.
Giolias was a director of the national news radio station "Thema 9.89," and also wrote for the blog, Troktiko, which often reported on scandals. He also worked closely with Makis Triandafylopoulos, a Greek journalist, famous for his investigative reporting.
Giolias' wife, who has suffered a strong shock, and the couple's young child were in the apartment at the time of the killing.
